sculpture
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The deceptively simple work is part sculpture, part assemblage, part collage and features a vintage wooden ironing board set beside a white sheet hung on a line with six wooden clothespins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Much like paper must be folded into the correct shape to create an origami sculpture, proteins inside cells must form precise three-dimensional structures before they can function properly.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Our critic noted that the show is “joyful proof that diminutive sculpture can be intimate, funny and even moving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In both cases, Hoving and Zeri brushed aside a thousand other considerations about the way the sculpture looked and zeroed in on a specific feature that told them everything they needed to know.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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She found she could make sculptures relatively quickly, in small batches, and that had emotional value, all while caring for a small child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Bayouth continues to make sculptures out of her in-home studio, and she sells them online and at art markets through her brand, Sea Bay Ceramics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Each smaller than a grain of rice, the sculptures pays tribute to Nobel Prize-winning physicist CV Raman and aerospace engineer and former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, besides Sarabhai.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Pan-African hairdressing is mirrored in another collection of works, many of which take their name from the places or ethnic groups that use the styles mirrored in the sculptures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
When Napoleon, the French emperor, invaded Italy at the end of the eighteenth century, he arrived with lists of what he wanted: hundreds of paintings, prints, sculptures.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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His charming, whimsical collection featured ruffled tutus, sculptured soft knits, peplum jackets, skirts with bustles and plenty of shearling fabric.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Price was best known for his sculptured silhouettes and theatrical styles, including pastel suits which featured in rock band Duran Duran's music video Rio.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Ingrid Simmel, who was on a day trip to buy a wood-carved sculptured of Jesus Christ as a newborn in his crib, said she was worried but not surprised about the retired pope’s worsening health.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
In the end, just the building’s sculptured facade, its public face, bulges outward above a glassed-in lobby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Voussoirs were carved to form the arched gables over each of the three front doors and a tympanum — a semicircular sculptured panel — was carved to go above each of the doors.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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A busboy is embraced by the beatnik art community when he develops an impressive but morbid method of sculpturing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
With the promise of sculpturing lean, long muscles, his workout has attracted celebrity devotees, including Sofía Vergara and Kim Kardashian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
After two years of intense production, sculpturing the work in public was “the fun part,” she added.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2013
It can range from painting or sculpturing to commissioning manufactured items like the sets of boxlike aluminum and plexiglass units to which Donald Judd gave no title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
In earlier times all used to cut their names in the wood, but now this sculpturing is only permitted to those who attain a certain position and leave without dishonor.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel
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